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How could a show starring Hollywood’s lesbian foremother Jodie Foster and the sexually fluid boxer-turned-actor Kali Reis revolve so much around these women?
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Jodie Foster and Kali Reis star in HBO 's new drama Night Country.
Critics have wondered why the show seems to sidestep the queerness that threatens to erupt from every intense moment on screen.
The series stars Foster and Reis as cops Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro .
Danvers and Navarro use their men solely to get information and get off.
Danvers’ version of “ Mommi ” is hypercompetent, prickly, and even domineering.
The prevalence of this kind of matriarchal figure wouldn’t be out of place on Night Country .
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